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Champ rotation needed in LCS

Akasuisei·3/15/2016, 7:44:37 PM·1 votes·1,018 views

As much as I love watching the finer points of the pro leagues regardless of what champs they play, it is getting VERY boring clicking on the "Watch Live" button only to see the same identical line up that the other 50 teams around the world have been and are using for the past year.

Solution: Similar to pitchers in major league baseball, there should be a limit as too how many games a champ can be played by a person before that champ needs to be rotated out.

I have heard other complaints from people who think that the play style in the LCS is boring to watch, where nothing happens for the first 20 min and then its just a waiting game to see who screws up first. I think a lot of this is attributed to seeing the same champs again and again which force a certain play style. If new champs were forced into the mix, the pros play style would change, which would also change the flow of the match possibly resulting in more kills or action early on.

This would also be beneficial to the players themselves in having them learn new champs which would also better reflect their "pro" status instead of being only very good at a few champs.

Ultimately, this would also result in higher viewership, which is good for Esports, and I can see even more interest by lower level casual players who wouldn't mind seeing their favorite champs at the Pro level as well.

Any other opinions? I think this would be a win for everyone.

4 Comments

freebuck3/15/2016, 7:50:57 PM3 votes

First of all, there is no limit to how much a pitcher can go in baseball. He only stops when his arm needs to rest. I just had to comment on this because I play baseball myself.

As for your main point, I'm going to say that I disagree with you. Teams are going to play whatever they want to play to win their matches. If riot really did think that LCS was boring, they would probably buff assassins so we could see more actions. But right now, I'm having a lot of fun watching LCS. I watch both EU and NA, and I think the matches are usually, (not always) fun to watch. Sure, you might have games where first blood comes at 25 minutes. But then there's intense games such as Echo Fox pulling off a crazy backdoor in a 67 minute game against Dignitas. ( i think it was dig) Putting this champion limit just doesn't seem fair. If one player's best champion is elise, then they should be able to play elise whenever they want. If the other team thinks they're too good, they ban elise. That's it for me. I disagree with you 100%.